[idn] Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013

[Thor Harald Johansen <thorhj@yahoo.com>]

> Just saying "unicode" is not enough to display "Ohta y Col_n" with
> japanese local unicode-based character set.

> Unicode is not useful in international context.

Most disagreements would disappear if all parties had identical
information in their posession. I belive that Unicode would cope with such
a situation. If your transmission medium supports 8-bit characters, I see
no problem in transmitting groups of octets representing Unicode glyphs
over that same medium, if proper information about this is provided in a
header. The last time I checked, UTF-? was a method of encapsulating the
full Unicode character set in a medium capable of carrying less bits.
-- 
Thor Harald Johansen
thorhj@yahoo.com